A theme is a set of unified design elements and color schemes for bullets, fonts, horizontal lines, background images, and other data access page elements. A theme helps you easily create professional and well-designed data access pages.
When you apply a theme to a data access page, the following elements are customized in your data access page: body and heading styles, background color or graphic, table border color, horizontal lines, bullets, hyperlink colors, and controls.
You can apply a theme for the first time, apply a different theme, or remove a theme using the Theme command on the Format menu. You can preview a theme before applying it by selecting it from the list of available themes and viewing the display of sample data access page elements in the Sample of theme box. Before applying a theme in the Theme dialog box, you can also select options to apply brighter colors to text and graphics, animate certain theme graphics, and apply a background to your data access page. Theme graphics are animated only when you view the data access page in a Web browser, not while you view the data access page in Microsoft Access.
A variety of themes are available on your hard drive when you install Access. If you have Microsoft FrontPage 4.0 or 98 installed, you can use the FrontPage themes as well. There are also additional themes available from the World Wide Web. To download additional themes, click Microsoft on the Web on the Help menu.
Use a theme for a new or existing data access page